Large organizations buy goods and order services for their activities. For example, they purchase special equipment, furniture, household goods, advertising and financial audit services. Government agencies, quasi-governmental companies, and natural monopoly entities are legally prohibited from purchasing from any contractors they like. Quasi-governmental and public sector monopolies hold a competition among suppliers. Purchases are published and made online on special portals.

In this article we will tell you what online purchases are, how they go, how to participate in them and how much they earn.

Purchases are made on online platforms. For example, government agencies use the public procurement portal, and the Samruk-Kazyna Fund group of companies operates through its own portal. Quasi-governmental companies, holdings, and large commercial organizations operate on the Eurasian Electronic Portal. Procurement portals are special platforms where companies publish ads and lots.

When a company plans to purchase goods, for example, a batch of laptops, it publishes an announcement. The supplier, if he wants to compete for the lot, submits an application for participation. The participant attaches scanned copies of the documents to the application and offers a price at which he will fulfill the terms of the transaction. When the applications are accepted, the competition committee selects a supplier that meets the price offer and other criteria. If the purchase is carried out using the request for price proposals method, the supplier submits only the price to the tender, and the system itself summarizes the results. The supplier who won the competition enters into an agreement with the customer.

It is more convenient for customers and suppliers to organize online purchases. 

Customers who purchase electronically speed up and simplify internal procedures. Portals help customers find suppliers faster due to high competition. It is more convenient for suppliers to submit electronic applications, because this way they can avoid tedious paperwork. 

E-procurement processes are automated. For example, the calculation of dumping. The portal will not miss an application with a severely discounted price offer or with an offer higher than the customer's plan. The results of all contests are publicly available. Suppliers and customers are protected from corruption and unfair competition.

Quasi—government companies are among the largest customers on the market. The quasi-public sector also buys machinery, car parts, furniture, and orders repair, consulting, and advertising services. But quasi-government companies are legally prohibited from conducting transactions with any suppliers. They are required to organize purchases on specialized electronic portals and hold a competition among suppliers. The procurement participants have a chance to become a supplier for large companies and holdings.

Supplier companies and individual entrepreneurs use the portal as an additional sales channel. There are also companies that benefit, on the contrary, from making money only on purchases.

Purchases, as a way of earning money, are suitable even for small companies. Purchases from several thousand to hundreds of millions of tenge are carried out on the portals. Customers place ads from a wide variety of fields: transport, agriculture, special equipment, spare parts, electronics, construction, repairs, medicines, business services, and beauty and health products. Suppliers will be able to find purchases on the portals that are suitable for their field of activity and volume of supply. 

Government agencies conduct purchases on the Public Procurement Portal of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The official procurement operator of the quasi-public sector has adoptedEurasian electronic portal by Order No. 1231 dated 11/29/2021 of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This means that all purchases are made by the main quasi-governmental companies on this portal. For example, companies purchase cars, building materials, household goods, computers, server equipment on the CES, order cleaning services, advertising, property valuation, and so on. Portal address: eep.mitwork.kz .

To participate in SES procurement, suppliers are accredited and choose a tariff.

Get accredited

Suppliers are subject to mandatory accreditation on the portal. Accreditation is a verification procedure for companies and individual entrepreneurs. The accreditation process takes from one to five business days. The operator checks the supplier against government databases, constituent documents, OKED, the size of the enterprise, and whether the registration data is filled in correctly. Customers in the SES work only with those companies that have been accredited. Suppliers without accreditation will not be able to submit applications on the portal.